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suggest the previous question : " How do you 

 know that the Lord saitli it ? " " How do you know 

 that the Lord doeth it ? " and who is compelled to 

 demand that rational ground for belief, without 

 which, to the man of science, assent is merely an 

 immoral pretence. 



And it is this rational ground of belief which the 

 writers of the Gospels, no less than Paul, and Egin- 

 hard, and Fox, so little dream of offering that they 

 would regard the demand for it as a kind of blas- 

 phemy. 



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